Word: victorias
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next to Godliness. In Victoria, B.C., Witness Nora Johnstone daintily declined to kiss the court's Bible because "it might not be clean," dipped into her handbag for her own tissue-wrapped Bible...
...Queen's Approval. Queen Victoria herself drove past and ordered the carriage slowed while she put on her spectacles to favor Tate's treat with an approving stare. The gallery-looming like a giant white stone wedding cake above the trees at Millbank-was destined to become almost as familiar a London tourist-haunt as Madame Tussaud's waxworks. Last week, the Tate was celebrating its 50th anniversary with a crowd-pulling show from its own storerooms, which boast Britain's best collection of English painting (including a fine group of Blakes) and of modern...
Nicholas Hilliard was the first, and greatest, of English miniaturists. Last week, 400 years after his birth, 101 Hilliard miniatures were on display in London's Victoria and Albert Museum...
...Queen Victoria Jubilee Hall, thousands of weeping Burmans stood in the rain awaiting their turns to file past the embalmed bodies of U Aung San and his Buddhist fellow victims (which will lie in state a month before burial). Burma now had a martyr and a legend. The Bogyok's A.F.P.F.L. party was more popular than ever, but its leadership had been almost obliterated. British Governor Sir Hubert Elvin Rance (who gets assassination threats almost every day) announced to Burmans: "I am glad to inform you that . . . Thakin Nu [the murdered leader's right-hand man] has agreed...
...Queen Victoria would not have been amused. Her sightly granddaughter, Lady Iris Mountbatten, was pinched in Manhattan for passing bum checks ($185.05) to a Washington dress shop. Hauled into night court, she huffed: "[In England] it's common practice to be overdrawn. . . . The bank notifies you and you cover the overdraft, all in good taste." Lady Iris covered and the dress shop dropped charges. But all the exciting publicity (which is now Lady Iris' business for Columbia Pictures Corp.) had excited the Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization. They found that Lady Iris had overstayed her visitor...